Subject: Louisiana Math

A Houston construction site boss was interviewing men for a job,
when along came a Cajun. The foreman thought to himself,
" I'm not hiring any Cajuns, all they want to do is argue, cook, and get
drunk" so he made up a test hoping that the Cajun wouldn't be able to answer
the questions, and he'd be able to refuse him the job without getting into
an argument.

"Here's your first question," the foreman said. "Without using
numbers, represent the number 9."

"Witout numbers?" The Cajun says. "Dat is easy," and proceeds to
draw three trees.

"What's this?" the boss asks. "Ave you got no brain? Tree and tree
and tree make nine." says the Cajun

"Fair enough," says the boss. "Here is your second question. Use the
same rules, but this time the number is 99." The Cajun stares into
space for a while, then picks up the picture that he has just drawn
and makes a smudge on each tree. "Ere you go." The boss scratches
his head and says, "How on earth do you get that to represent 99?"

"Each of da trees is dirty now! So it's dirty tree, and dirty tree,
and dirty tree. Dat is 99."

The boss is getting worried he's going to have to hire him, so he
says, "Alright, last question. Same rules again, but represent the
number 100."

The Cajun stares into space again, then he picks up the picture
again and makes a little mark at the base of each tree, and says,
"Ere you go. One 'undred."

The boss looks at the attempt. "You must be nuts if you think that
represents a hundred." The Cajun leans forward and points to the
marks at the tree bases, and says, "A little dog come along and crap
by each tree, so now you've got dirty tree and a turd, dirty tree
and a turd, and dirty tree and a turd, which make one 'undred. So
when I start?"